Gigapan Comments
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Fantastic. Crazy rock formations in the center.
Thank you for sharing your experience and adding
the equipment you used. I am currently building a
pan head myself and it will probably be something
manually operated like yours.

This photo was produce with a Nikon D200 (10
megapixel) camera and a 28-105mm F 2.8 Tamron Zoom
Lens at the 105 mm setting. I used a homemade
panoramic bracket ($10) and spaced the images
manually with 25% overlap with a simple disk
printed marking each stop on the paper and a
toothpick that points to the disk, low tech but it
works and is better than looking through the
viewfinder in freezing cold wind. It is five rows
tall and each row has 62 images. I stitched it
using PTgui on a system without a raid drive
(using an external 500gb hard drive) and it took
16 hours to stitch and blend the 300 individual
images. The final file size is about 2 gigabytes
and it takes photoshop 30 minutes to open or save
the file. I imagine in the future I need to invest
in some hard drive arrays to make these projects
more tollerable. Final image dimmensions are
104174 by 18355. As I was alone, I did not ski
West Willow this day although the powder was deep
and tempting, I figured somebody had to stitch the
images together. I would love your feedback or
comments!